Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Administration

Learn how a server, physical and virtual, delivers data, databases, applications, and software to clients, with centralized management, security, blade and rack hardware, and load balancing.

Explore Windows Server 2019 editions, licensing models, and hardware requirements, including Essentials, Standard, and Data Center, with virtualization using Hyper-V and per-license, per-user, or per-device licensing details.

Create a lab by provisioning three virtual machines in VMware Workstation—a pair of servers and a client—allocating RAM, storage, and custom network settings.

Learn to install Windows Server 2019 using an ISO image in a virtual machine with VMware Workstation, including language options, disk setup, and creating a secure administrator account.

Explore built-in Windows Server 2019 tools, including Server Manager, Windows Admin Center, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Performance and Resource Monitors, Event Viewer, Task and Disk Management, plus PowerShell for automation.

Learn how to install Windows Admin Center for Windows Server 2019, configure certificates, access the portal via Edge or Chrome, and manage servers, services, firewall, updates, and remote connections.

Learn how Windows Server 2019 secures the boot process with features like secure boot, digital signatures, and TPM-enabled encryption in Hyper-V virtual machines, ensuring only trusted OS and applications load.

Explore shielded virtual machines in Hyper-V, a Windows Server 2019 security feature that protects generation 2 VMs from hacking and unauthorized access, requiring remote access.

Explore local storage on windows server, covering hard disks, partition tables, basic and dynamic disks, primary and extended partitions, logical drives, and virtual and physical volume management.

Explore enterprise storage concepts, including direct-attached storage, NAS, and SAN, featuring centralized storage accessible over the network with easy management and troubleshooting, but with less flexibility and limited extension.

Configure SAN in a lab by creating virtual disks, attaching storage, and creating a storage space, then set up iSCSI targets and initiators, and manage volumes on Windows Server 2019.

Explore storage migration services to inventory and map files and folders, preserve permissions, and automatically migrate data from an old server to Windows Server 2019, then decommission the old system.

Explore storage replica on Windows Server 2019, examining disaster recovery through synchronous and asynchronous replication across data centers and clusters, with offsite storage and automatic failover.

Discover how data deduplication in Microsoft Windows Server 2019 identifies and keeps a single copy by removing duplicates across volumes, installable via server manager, with configurable rules, schedules, and exclusions.

Learn to configure work folders on Windows Server 2019 by installing services, creating file shares, setting permissions for domain users, and configuring client synchronization.

Explore installing and configuring a Windows file server with file sharing, quotas, file screening, dynamic access control, DFS, plus storage reports.

Install and configure an ftp server on Windows Server 2019, create users and groups, set folder permissions, and configure an ftp site for remote file access.

Configure BitLocker drive encryption on Windows servers by enabling the feature, enforcing startup authentication (password or TPM) and recovery options via local policies and administrative templates.

Explain Active Directory Services and the domain structure, including domain controllers, domains, trees, forests, sites, organizational units, and centralized management with group policies.

Install and promote a server to a domain controller in a new forest, configure static ip and dns, and enable active directory domain services.

Explore Active Directory objects, focusing on user and computer accounts, and how administrators manage identity, groups, and access using Active Directory Users and Computers, PowerShell, and Command Prompt.

Explain active directory objects, focusing on groups and organizational units, distinguish security and distribution groups, and apply group scopes to manage permissions and policies in Windows Server 2019.

Explore active directory objects part-03: user accounts, groups, and computer accounts, and how sites organize physical locations; learn to create and manage these objects using GUI and commands.

DNS resolves names to IP addresses and IP to names, set up forward and reverse zones, manage primary and secondary DNS, and handle resource records in Windows Server 2019.

Explore DNS server management in Windows Server 2019, covering DNS command-line tools, ipconfig, delegation, logging, aging and scavenging, and DNS backups for reliable troubleshooting.

DHCP server dynamically assigns IP addresses to clients, using scopes and options with reservations, and explains the discovery, offer, request, acknowledgement, binding, and renewal processes.

Explore advanced DHCP server concepts in Windows Server 2019, including configuring subnets, scopes, and DNS options, using a relay agent for remote sites, and implementing split scope and failover.

Explore how group policy manages user and computer objects in Windows Server 2019, using the Group Policy Management Console to create, link, and enforce policies across domains and OUs.

Explore group policy basics in Server 2019, including GPO storage, policy objects, links, backups, security filtering, delegation, and policy processing order, with practical guidance on inheritance and enforcement.

Configure folder redirection in server 2019 by applying a group policy that redirects user documents to a centralized shared data folder.

Learn how network load balancing and failover clustering work in Windows Server 2019. Build a logical cluster of web servers, then configure ports, affinity, and host parameters.

Explore failover clustering in Windows Server 2019, enabling high availability with active and standby servers, shared storage, and key quorum modes.

Learn to configure failover clustering on Windows Server 2019, set up shared storage and virtual disks, install file services, validate the cluster, and test failover between nodes.

Explore advanced Active Directory concepts, including domain and forest boundaries, application boundaries, and replication across domain controllers and partitions. Understand administration roles and group policies in a domain and forest.

Explore Active Directory domain services trusts, including transitive and non-transitive, two-way and one-way trusts, forest and external trusts, and shortcut trusts to optimize authentication across domains.

Configure ad ds trusts by establishing parent-child domains, validating transitive parental trusts, and creating shortcut trusts between domain controllers to enable cross-domain access.

Learn to configure active directory domain services trusts, including forest trusts between two forests, and set up trust directions, dns zones, and zone transfers to enable cross-forest access.

Describe adding sites and replication in Active Directory, detailing how changes propagate from a domain controller to all forest controllers via configuration, schema, domain, and application partitions.

Explore Hyper-V in Server 2019 and learn to install and configure the hypervisor. Create and manage virtual machines, memory and storage, and build virtual networks with private and external switches.